Luke Wilson in tears over brother Owen’s attempted suicide
August 30, 2007 by Wendy Boswell
This whole thing is so sad, but I think that the reporter who asked Luke this question is an idiot. Of COURSE he’s upset.
Luke Wilson has opened up to a US magazine over his older brother’s suicide attempt at the weekend.
In an interview with magazine OK!, Wilson broke down when quizzed about his brother’s future.
When asked if Owen was going to be alright after his latest public ordeal, Luke replied in tears, ”I just don’t know”.According to reports, it was Luke who found Owen bloodied and dazed in his Santa Monica home and made the 911 call.
Wilson was rushed to St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica before being transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, where he is listed as stable.
Media speculation on the cause of the suicide attempt immediately centred on reports of a heated argument with an unknown close friend.
Other reports have spoken of Wilson’s depression and drug battle after the breakdown of his relationship with ex-girlfriend Kate Hudson.
In early June Wilson broke up with Hudson, whom he’d met last year on the set of the movie You, Me and Dupree.Since then Hudson has been seen out and about with Punk’d actor Dax Shepard, the two catching the lens of the paparazzi with an impromptu makeout session in a local supermarket the day before Wilson was admitted to hospital.
Hudson, who is currently filming a movie in Boston, had to be taken away from set after she was told about Wilson’s suicide attempt, according to UK reports.
”She looked upset,” a witness told UK newspaper London Lite.
”She was on the phone, pacing back and forth, then her handlers came out and she was ushered into a white SUV.”
I can’t see getting that upset over Kate. She’s kind of a player, if you know what I mean.
I think it’s a two-headed situation. If drugs led him to this, that may be easier to control than actual mental depression or schizophrenia. Also, Hollyweird would forgive his suicide but probably not his drug addiction which led to his withdrawing from the Stiller movie. In that case, his publicist will go for the suicide angle. Hollyweird is it’s own republic.
I must say I am absolutely appalled that the US Magazine reporter had the incredibly bad taste to ask Luke Wilson if his brother’s (Owen Wilson) suicide attempt made him upset!! I am so grateful that Luke found his brother in time, to thwart his misguided efforts. Owen is in the hospital, where he really needs to be now, so that he can get the much-needed professional help he needs to kick drugs and deal with his long-standing mental depression. Owen is more deserving of life than he knows at the moment. Life is full of much joy and pain for each of us. I pray he will get better…He’s a wonderful guy, and an extremely “gifted” actor.
Janice